Margaret Gafford, 79, passed away Sunday, March 22, 2009, in Fort Worth.
Funeral: 2 p.m. Saturday at Ridglea United Methodist Church. The Rev. Danny Tenney will officiate. Interment: Greenwood Memorial Park. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Greenwood Funeral Home.
Margaret Gafford was born Dec. 10, 1929, in Waco to the late Otto and Helen Board Bachmann. As a teenager, she moved to Dallas, where she graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and from Southern Methodist University. While at SMU she met and subsequently married William C. Gafford, her husband of 49 years.
She was a first-grade teacher for 32 years in the Castleberry Independent School District, where she achieved teaching recognition awards and held the office of president of the Classroom Teachers Association and was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma. She had a warm and positive personality and enjoyed being with her family, teaching children to read, attending Ridglea United Methodist Church, participating in the Friendship Class and Altar Guild, keeping in touch with lifelong friends, living in both Fort Worth and Dallas as an adult, and using her teaching talents with grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, William C. Gafford, on Sept. 22, 1999.
Survivors: Her children, Linda Gafford Belota and husband, Ronald J., and W. Wade Gafford and wife, Laurie; grandchildren, Rhonda Belota Psencik and husband, Timothy, Clay R. Gafford and Brent A. Gafford; and great-grandchild, Paxton K. Psencik.
Published in Star-Telegram on 3/26/2009
Funeral: 2 p.m. Saturday at Ridglea United Methodist Church. The Rev. Danny Tenney will officiate. Interment: Greenwood Memorial Park. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Greenwood Funeral Home.
Margaret Gafford was born Dec. 10, 1929, in Waco to the late Otto and Helen Board Bachmann. As a teenager, she moved to Dallas, where she graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and from Southern Methodist University. While at SMU she met and subsequently married William C. Gafford, her husband of 49 years.
She was a first-grade teacher for 32 years in the Castleberry Independent School District, where she achieved teaching recognition awards and held the office of president of the Classroom Teachers Association and was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma. She had a warm and positive personality and enjoyed being with her family, teaching children to read, attending Ridglea United Methodist Church, participating in the Friendship Class and Altar Guild, keeping in touch with lifelong friends, living in both Fort Worth and Dallas as an adult, and using her teaching talents with grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, William C. Gafford, on Sept. 22, 1999.
Survivors: Her children, Linda Gafford Belota and husband, Ronald J., and W. Wade Gafford and wife, Laurie; grandchildren, Rhonda Belota Psencik and husband, Timothy, Clay R. Gafford and Brent A. Gafford; and great-grandchild, Paxton K. Psencik.
Published in Star-Telegram on 3/26/2009
Margaret Gafford, 79, passed away Sunday, March 22, 2009, in Fort Worth.
Funeral: 2 p.m. Saturday at Ridglea United Methodist Church. The Rev. Danny Tenney will officiate. Interment: Greenwood Memorial Park. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Greenwood Funeral Home.
Margaret Gafford was born Dec. 10, 1929, in Waco to the late Otto and Helen Board Bachmann. As a teenager, she moved to Dallas, where she graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and from Southern Methodist University. While at SMU she met and subsequently married William C. Gafford, her husband of 49 years.
She was a first-grade teacher for 32 years in the Castleberry Independent School District, where she achieved teaching recognition awards and held the office of president of the Classroom Teachers Association and was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma. She had a warm and positive personality and enjoyed being with her family, teaching children to read, attending Ridglea United Methodist Church, participating in the Friendship Class and Altar Guild, keeping in touch with lifelong friends, living in both Fort Worth and Dallas as an adult, and using her teaching talents with grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, William C. Gafford, on Sept. 22, 1999.
Survivors: Her children, Linda Gafford Belota and husband, Ronald J., and W. Wade Gafford and wife, Laurie; grandchildren, Rhonda Belota Psencik and husband, Timothy, Clay R. Gafford and Brent A. Gafford; and great-grandchild, Paxton K. Psencik.
Published in Star-Telegram on 3/26/2009
Funeral: 2 p.m. Saturday at Ridglea United Methodist Church. The Rev. Danny Tenney will officiate. Interment: Greenwood Memorial Park. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Greenwood Funeral Home.
Margaret Gafford was born Dec. 10, 1929, in Waco to the late Otto and Helen Board Bachmann. As a teenager, she moved to Dallas, where she graduated from Woodrow Wilson High School and from Southern Methodist University. While at SMU she met and subsequently married William C. Gafford, her husband of 49 years.
She was a first-grade teacher for 32 years in the Castleberry Independent School District, where she achieved teaching recognition awards and held the office of president of the Classroom Teachers Association and was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma. She had a warm and positive personality and enjoyed being with her family, teaching children to read, attending Ridglea United Methodist Church, participating in the Friendship Class and Altar Guild, keeping in touch with lifelong friends, living in both Fort Worth and Dallas as an adult, and using her teaching talents with grandchildren and a great-grandchild.
Margaret was preceded in death by her husband, William C. Gafford, on Sept. 22, 1999.
Survivors: Her children, Linda Gafford Belota and husband, Ronald J., and W. Wade Gafford and wife, Laurie; grandchildren, Rhonda Belota Psencik and husband, Timothy, Clay R. Gafford and Brent A. Gafford; and great-grandchild, Paxton K. Psencik.
Published in Star-Telegram on 3/26/2009
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